A great dairy-man [graphic].

[London] : Pubd. by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St., December 1820.

1 print : etching ; sheet 21 x 26 cm

wove paper.

Sold by London's Dulau and Company to the New York City bookseller Ernest R. Gee in 1928. Earlier ownership by W.E. Gladstone is suggested by a manuscript note from Dulau formerly laid into the front the first volume (now in the object file), which states that "These came from the Gladstone Library at Court Hey, Broad Green. The manuscript notes written below the caricatures are in the handwriting of W.E. Gladstone."

"Cows and goats with distended udders are grouped outside a small thatched cottage (see British Museum Satires No. 13893). The King, wearing apron, over-sleeves, and top-boots, stands by a cow, an arm resting on her back, his pail at his feet, his stool behind him. Behind (right), a fat dairymaid, presumably Lady Conyngham, walks towards the cottage, her pail on her head. Three plump women watch from open casement windows."--British Museum online catalogue.

English

October 08, 2024

Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 10, no. 14028